Is the Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) superior to clinician judgement in detecting critical illness in the pre-hospital environment?
ResuscitationPublished 14 January 2012
James N. Fullerton, Charlotte Price, Natalie Silvey, Samantha Brace, Gavin D. Perkins
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Clinical judgement alone has a low sensitivity for critical illness in the pre-hospital environment and the addition of MEWS improves detection at the expense of reduced specificity, and combination systems of MewS and clinical judgement may be effective.
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Clinical judgement alone has a low sensitivity for critical illness in the pre-hospital environment. The addition of MEWS improves detection at the expense of reduced specificity. The optimal scoring system to be employed in this setting is yet to be elucidated.
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